Doug Weller wrote:
>
> On Wed, 02 May 2007 12:55:05 -0400, in rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith wrote:
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> >
> >Pancake mixes are a pet peeve of mine. Most of them require that you add
> >milk, eggs and oil, the expensive ingredients, while the mix is just the
> >keep ingredients, all inexpensive kitchen staples. They always seem to have
> >a weird taste.
>
> Try Krusteaze, you just add water (or beer, or whatever takes your fancy)
> and they are delicious.

They may be quite tasty, even though they contain powdered eggs, powdered
milk and who knows what for the fat, but I doubt they compare to pancakes
made from scratch. It takes less time for me to make up a batch of pancake
batter from scratch than it does to heat the pan. From my experience,
there is always a funny taste to pancake mixes.

My SiL gave me a batch of multi grain pancake mix the last time she was
here. It was okay, but still had that odd mix taste. It was not an add
water only mix. I have no idea what she paid for that bag of mix, probably
a lot because it came from a speciality store, but I figured the contents
would be a few pennies worth of flour, sugar, salt and baking powder, maybe
25 cents total.